Colum McCann Quotes
You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again.
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'
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I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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I ended up living in braids. It was the '90s - thin braids were very popular - and my mom took me to a lady's kitchen. I got it done, and I've never stopped.
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You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again.
